phrasal verbphr vSURVIVEto have enough money to buy the things you need, but no more 〔钱〕勉强够花
I don’t earn a huge salary, but we get by.
我薪水不高,但我们还能凑合。
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Sometimes they had to get by on very little.
有时候他们只得靠一点点钱勉强过日子。
Examples from the Corpus
get by• He went to Tokyo and within a few weeks knew enough Japanese to get by.• We don't have a lot of money to spend on luxuries, but we get by.• When I was at college I used to be able to get by on $20 a week.
get on• I can barely get by on $ 60,000 a year.• Winifred Bleasdale, and others like her, have to get by on £77 a week.• Somehow they manage to get by on $800 a month.• The family gets by on a hundred and sixty pounds a week from socialsecurity and family allowancepayments.• It's, well, enough to get by on, but not much more, not enough to start something.• For all the glamour, players in the currencymarketsget by on hard work and toughanalysis.• Always slightly befuddled, Bennett none the less gets by on his academicprowess.• They get by ontalent and at this level that might work for a while.• Some people can get by on three or four hours a night whilst others seem to need much more.